Position Paper Number 1 for the Workshop “Towards  Criteria of Sustainability and Social Meaningfulness in  Development“: Instrumental Reason as a Hindering Factor  for Meaningful Technology Design

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sustainability, global sustainable information society

This paper is the first of a number of position papers for the workshop “Towards Criteria of Sustainability and Social Meaningfulness in Development“

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Wolfgang Hofkirchner, Unified Theory of Information Research Group

Wolfgang Hofkirchner is consecutively Visiting Professor at the University of León, Spain, supporting the project ‘BITrum’ on information concepts and finalizing a book on the Unified Theory of Information, and Visiting Professor at the Open University of Catalonia, Barcelona, where he stays at the Interdisciplinary Internet Institute (IN3), organizing the annual
meeting of the ‘ICTs and Society Network (http://www.icts-and-society.net). He also works on a book about information society theory. He is editor of tripleC, an open access journal for the Global Sustainable Information Society, head of the
Unified Theory of Information Research Group and director of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science. Address: Institute for Design and Technology Assessment, Favoritenstraße 9/E187, 1040 Vienna, Austria. [email: wolfgang.hofkirchner@tuwien.ac.at]
Robert M. Bichler, Unified Theory of Information Research Group

Robert M. Bichler is lecturer at the Shanghai International Studies University (SISU) and member of the Unified Theory of Information (UTI) Research Group - Association for the Advancement of Information Sciences. Prior he was a research fellow and lecturer at the ICT&S Center at the University of Salzburg. Address: Shanghai International Studies University, German Department, 550 Da Lian Road (W), Shanghai 200083, P.R. China. [email: robert.bichler@uti.at]